• the address is typically 32 or 64 bits. Most hard disk drives released after 1996 implement logical block addressing. In logical block addressing, only...
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  • memory cell or other logical or physical entity. For software programs to save and retrieve stored data, each datum must have an address where it can be located...
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    schemes typically start counting with 0, e.g., logical block addressing (LBA), or "relative sector addressing" used in DOS. For physical disk geometries the...
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  • (FAT12), 0x04 (FAT16), 0x0C (FAT32 with logical block addressing), and 0x0E (FAT16 with logical block addressing) types as well. A basic data partition...
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  • In computing, a logical address is the address at which an item (memory cell, storage element, network host) appears to reside from the perspective of...
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    in UEFI. Like MBR, GPT uses logical block addressing (LBA) in place of the historical cylinder-head-sector (CHS) addressing. The protective MBR is stored...
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  • advertising, a form of advertising in mobile telecommunications Logical block addressing, a method for specifying locations on computer storage devices...
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  • inter-record gap determine how many blocks can fit in each track. A later development in disk addressing was logical block addressing (LBA), in which the cylinder-head-sector...
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    specification used a 28-bit addressing mode through LBA28, allowing for the addressing of 228 (268435456) sectors (blocks) of 512 bytes each, resulting...
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    limitations, notably those related to maximum disk or partition size and logical block addressing providing testing and informational utilities Drivers could be...
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  • IBM AS/400 in its CISC variants, use 48-bit addresses. The address size used in logical block addressing was increased to 48 bits with the introduction...
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  • software technique to extend a system BIOS that does not support logical block addressing (LBA) to access drives larger than 504 MiB. The technology was...
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  • related to the Year 2000 problem. Supported EIDE addressing schemes include logical block addressing (LBA), ONTrack Disk Manager, EZDrive, and extended...
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    from system to system. CompactFlash supports C-H-S and 28-bit logical block addressing (CF 5.0 introduced support for LBA-48). CF cards with flash memory...
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  • In computer storage, a logical unit number, or LUN, is a number used to identify a logical unit, which is a device addressed by the SCSI protocol or by...
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  • limits of CHS addressing, a transition was made to using LBA, or logical block addressing. Both the partition length and partition start address are sector...
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  • Record (VBR) Disk partitioning BSD disklabel Logical Block Addressing (LBA) Disk editor Partition alignment Logical Disk Manager "Disk Concepts and Troubleshooting"...
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    between blocks. Digital disk drives are block storage devices. Each disk is divided into logical blocks (collection of sectors). Blocks are addressed using...
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    (requiring SYS to take care of all these conditions). When FAT32 and logical block addressing (LBA) support was added, Microsoft even switched to require i386...
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  • SCSI (category Logical communication interfaces)
    disk type) storage device consists of a number of logical blocks, addressed by Logical Block Address (LBA). A typical LBA equates to 512 bytes of storage...
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  • A multicast address is a logical identifier for a group of hosts in a computer network that are available to process datagrams or frames intended to be...
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    load the remainder of the file into memory. When Microsoft added logical block addressing (LBA) and FAT32 support, they switched to a boot loader reaching...
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  • PHP LAMP—Linux Apache MySQL Python LAN—Local Area Network LBA—Logical Block Addressing LB—Load Balancer LCD—Liquid Crystal Display LCR—Least Cost Routing...
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    Since the early 1970s, all GCOS 3 and GCOS 8 disk drives used Logical Block Addressing (LBA). City College of San Francisco, with access to WWMCCS Timeline...
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    Second Edition. It added support for the FAT32 file system and logical block addressing (LBA), and was the last version that could boot to the command...
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    Wear leveling (redirect from Erase block)
    leveling is called dynamic wear leveling and it uses a map to link logical block addresses (LBAs) from the OS to the physical flash memory. Each time the...
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  • SCPH-70000 series PlayStation 2 hardware and one to implement 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (which allows HD Loader to take full advantage of hard drives larger...
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    Control-Alt-Delete key press Network booting support e.g. iPXE or gPXE Logical block addressing (LBA) POST Memory Manager (PMM) Paravirtualization, Xen HVM, VirtIO...
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    format for the boot drive. Depending on the BIOS used, up to four Logical Block Addressing (LBA) hard disks of up to 128 GB, or 2 TB, in size are supported...
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    primary addressing and routing methodologies common in networking: unicast addressing, anycast addressing, and multicast addressing. A unicast address identifies...
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